SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management, Sexual Diversity
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Outline: presentation of self, assessing symbolic interactionism, city of strangers, sizing up, boundaries of the self, diversity in the city, presentation of self. Impression management [subsection of presenting oneself, in the way we dress, talk, whether or not we make eye contact, etc. ] Strategies to present ourselves [a part of all of us playing roles is impression management in the form of our conscious decisions in presenting oneself such as during interviews or meetings] [thinking of life as on stage and off stage -> what in our off stage guides us in our on stage -> example: rehearsing lines for a stressful situation] These strategies are multi-dimensional since almost all sociological studies discuss the importance of roles and emphasize how difference we are in each of our roles. Roles and distance [some roles we play distantly and some we take to heart (surgeons joking when they"re in an operation = distancing themselves from the role): assessing symbolic interactionism.
